The Groupe de Barbezieux (Barbezieux Group) joined the writers of three Charentais families, Fauconnier, Boutelleau and Delamain, who were childhood friends in the town of Barbezieux

Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire

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, in the Charente

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 département, France

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. Although the école de Barbezieux (school of Barbezieux) is often mentioned, they did not necessarily share the same outlook.

Fauconnier :

• Henri Fauconnier
  Henri Fauconnier
  Henri Fauconnier was a French writer, known mainly for his novel, Malaysia, which won the Prix Goncourt in 1930. He was part of the Groupe de Barbezieux.-Family:...
  
  , prix Goncourt
  Prix Goncourt
  The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"...
  
   1930 for the novel Malaisie,
• Geneviève Fauconnier
  Geneviève Fauconnier
  Geneviève Fauconnier was a French novelist who lived in the south of the Charente département, . She was one of the most sensitive members of the so called Groupe de Barbezieux...
  
  , prix Fémina
  Prix Femina
  The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine La Vie heureuse . The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury, although the authors of the winning works do not have to be women...
  
   1933 for the novel Claude.

Boutelleau :

• Germaine Boutelleau (1876-1956), married Jacques Delamain,
• Jacques Boutelleau (1884-1968), later took the name Jacques Chardonne
  Jacques Chardonne
  Jacques Chardonne is the pseudonym of French writer Jacques Boutelleau...
  
  .

Delamain :

• Jacques Delamain, writer on ornithology
  Ornithology
  Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds...
  
  ,
• Robert Delamain,
• Maurice Delamain, co-director of Éditions Stock
  Stock (publishing house)
  Stock is a French publisher, a subsidiary of Hachette Livre, which itself is part of the Lagardère Group.It was founded in the 18th century by André Cailleau, who was succeeded in 1753 by Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne, who published Voltaire and Rousseau. At the beginning of the 19th century, the...
  
  with Jacques Chardonne from 1921 to 1959,

One could add :

• François Fontaine, son-in-law of Henri Fauconnier.